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09 Apr 2024 18:23, you wrote to me:

 NB> I tried upping mailnews.wraplength to 79, and also down to 66 as
 NB> suggested in some RFC that was posted by you in the past, I believe.
 NB> Neither one helps. Where the default settings are now is probably the
 NB> best. Fidonet style "smart quoting" sometimes just needs a bit of
 NB> backspacing of the text that gets wrapped to the next line back up to
 NB> the previous line it should be on.

I also did several tests and couldn't find anything that didn't have issues.

 NB> If we were to fix that, we would probably have to get into the quoting
 NB> and rewrapping part of the code in order to detect
 NB> initials/smartquotes, remove them while remembering what quote level
 NB> it was, rewrap the text to be quoted, and re-add the initials with the
 NB> quote level (probably how Golded does it).

It might be done in different ways, but yes, I think that the solution would
be that Smapi/JamNNTPd re-wraps FTN-style quotes to 72 chars or less when
sending them to the client.

The alternative would be making clients support Fido-quotes. But this seems
more difficult... :-)

BTW, HotdogEd does. You can select NNTP-style (no initials) or FTN-style
quoting.

There was an old, experimental Thunderbird addon for this, FTNQuoter, but
AFAIK it only worked for ancient TB versions...

Carlos

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